The Brutalist, the Adrien Brody-led historical fiction epic currently in theatres, has cinema sickos like me frothing at the mouth. For a start, it's already won three Golden Globes, and for another, The Brutalist is one of vanishingly few pictures to be shot entirely in VistaVision since the 1960s. Besides that though, this period piece is also notable for how it's leveraging more recent technological advancements—namely, AI.
The Brutalist builds the life story of fictional architect László Toth brick-by-brick, a Hungarian-born Jew who flees Europe amid antisemitic persecution. Though leading actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones both worked with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their Hungarian accents, it's since come to light that AI was used as part of the post-production process to alter lines of spoken dialogue. In a statement issued to Deadline, director Brady Corbet insisted that Jones and Brody's performances remain "completely their own" though.
