David Cronenberg Is not one who suffers fools and he definitely feels a scam when he sees one. Among this year’s many Oscar-related scandals were perhaps one of the more meaningless stories about AI in Brady Corbet’s ”Brutalist. “Given the project proud to be a throw to classic filmmaking, even shooting at film and use the old format of Showed For some scenes, many fans were disappointed that Corbet would use such sharing technology in their work. Cronenberg, who spoke in the London Royal Festival Hall during a performance with composer Howard Shore at the Soundtrack Festival, shared how he thought the uprising was unnecessary and maybe even orchestrated.
“I have to admit that there was a scandal (with) ‘brutalist’, he said (according to Hollywood Reporter). “There was a discussion about Adrien Brody… but apparently they used artificial intelligence to improve his accent. I think it was a campaign against ‘The Brutalist’ by some other Oscar nominated. It is very a Harvey Weinstein type, even though he was not around. “
The Canadian filmmaker pointed out to the audience that craftsmen have manipulated elements in post for eternity and that even he has felt to adjust sound every now and then in his films. While presenting one of his collaborations with Shore – an adaptation of the piece “M. Butterfly” – Cronenberg even recognized the changes he made in the post.
“We move with the actors’ voices all the time,” Cronenberg said. “When it comes to John (Lone), when he was this character, this singer, I raised the pitch in his voice (to sound more feminine) and when he is revealed as I lowered to his natural voice. This is just part of Moviemaking.”
“The Brutalist” scandal broke out when the film’s editor, David Jancsó, told the video tech website Redshark News About how he mixed his own Hungarian accent with that of the characters played by Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.
“Most of their Hungarian dialogue have some of me talking in there,” Jancsó said. “We were very careful to keep their performances. It is mainly just replacing letters here and there. You can do this in Protools yourself, but we had so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we would still be in the mail.”
When social media heard this news, many were apoplectic over one of the strongest Oscar challengers of the year who uses a technology that many still believe have no place in a creative industry. Trying to cool heads, coret released a statement Further explains how the AI tool was used and its minimal effect on the overall film.
“Adrien and Felicity’s performances are entirely their own. They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to make their accents perfect. Innovative respective technology was used only in Hungarian Language Dialogue, especially to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy,” said Corbet. “No English language changed. This was a manual process, made by our audio team and and in the post -production.
Despite this conflict, Brody still managed to win Best actor At the 97th Academy Awards, with composer Daniel Blumbar, who also got the best original points for the film. Cronenberg himself is also not familiar with the scandal. He talked further during the London Soundtrack festival and picked up the reception he received after the premiere of his erotic thriller “crash”, which many called to be banned.
“The film caused a huge sensation (on) Cannes Film Festival 1996,” said Cronenberg. “Alexander Walker was a very famous movie critic here, said this was a movie” Beyond the Bounds of Depravity “, which I of course loved. We actually used in some ads.”
The filmmaker got a less extendable reception Last year at Cannes where he revealed his latest function, “The Shrouds”, with Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce.
“The Shrouds” will be released in NY/LA Theaters on April 18, followed by a nationwide edition on April 25 from Sideshow/Janus films.
