www.indiewire.com: Controversy has engulfed Brady Corbet‘s three-time Golden Globe winner “The Brutalist” since a January 11 interview the film‘s editor Dávid Jancsó gave video tech site RedShark News in which he said that he used AI-driven tech to smooth the Hungarian dialogue of actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.
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This is a super interesting article—the idea that actors’ dialogue could be make more authentic by altering their dialogue. It’s very hyperreal. Acting is definitionally a form of simulation, even more so when the actors are second-language speakers of a language of which their characters are native speakers. To then modify their performances with AI in order to falsify the accents of native speakers could be seen as either simply an extension of normal sound editing, or a betrayal of the actors’ authentic performances (which is somewhat oxymoronic, given that the actors are already simulating). Clearly many people on social media instantly decided to view the use of AI in this film as the latter, but I feel that the situation is at the very least more nuanced than that. Janscó states in the article that basically the production team just used AI in order to expedite a process that could be achieved in the sound editing program ProTools; I wonder how the response would differ if all of the editing really had been done in ProTools.
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