While the awards season is in full swing, many have been talking about the contenders for the big accolades of the year. Among them includes Brady Corbet’s period piece The Brutalist, which has already taken home several awards. 

The Brutalist sees Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect who leaves Europe with his family after the end of World War II. Upon coming to America, he encounters massive success, but with the successes comes the temptation of his newfound fame. 

The editor for the film, Dávid Jancsó, recently shared part of his creative process when editing the film, which had a strong amount of Hungarian dialogue between the characters. He explained to Red Shark News that part of his process was to use AI to help authenticate the speech. 

“If you’re coming from the Anglo-Saxon world certain sounds can be particularly hard to grasp,” he said, after he expressed his own understanding of the language, as a native speaker. 

He also touched upon how tricky it can be to master the speech patterns for an actor, given the difficulty of the language. 

The usage of AI in film has been hotly debated, especially being a critical point of both the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes of 2023. With the mixed reception of it, Hollywood Reporter noted that director Corbet has defended the use of it by Jancsó. 

“Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Corbet also stressed that the process was hands-on, while trying to keep the performances as complete as possible. He also expressed that it was “done with the utmost respect for the craft.” 

For more updates, stay with us here.