#AI In Filmmaking

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How Eshwarprasad is Revolutionizing Indie Filmmaking with Daily Cinematic Reels

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How Eshwarprasad is Revolutionizing Indie Filmmaking with Daily Cinematic Reels

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The AI Controversy Surrounding The Brutalist and Adrien Brody’s Performance

If you haven’t already heard about The Brutalist, it’s the epic period drama that’s been making waves this awards season. Directed by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, the film follows Hungarian-born Jewish architect László Tóth (Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Jones) as they build a new life in the US. With its gripping narrative and striking visuals, it’s earned critical acclaim—including three Golden Globe wins. But behind the glowing reviews lies a controversy that’s sparked heated debates online.

The issue? The use of AI to adjust the Hungarian accents in Brody and Jones’ performances.

What Happened?

The buzz started when editor Dávid Jancsó revealed that AI technology from Ukrainian startup Respeecher was used to refine Hungarian language dialogue. While this might sound like a straightforward post-production tool, some speculated that the AI had been used to alter or enhance the stars’ performances, sparking backlash from audiences concerned about authenticity and the ethics of AI in filmmaking.

Brady Corbet, however, was quick to set the record straight. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he emphasized that the performances remained entirely the actors’ own, stating, “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own. They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents.”

The AI, according to Corbet, was only employed to tweak specific vowels and letters in Hungarian dialogue. “The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”

A Closer Look at the Technology

Dávid Jancsó, a native Hungarian speaker, shared further insight into the process. Hungarian is notoriously difficult to pronounce for English speakers, and the actors faced a significant challenge in mastering the language. “If you’re coming from the Anglo-Saxon world certain sounds can be particularly hard to grasp,” Jancsó explained. With a limited budget of under $10 million, Respeecher was brought in to help refine the accents efficiently without compromising the actors’ hard work.

Jancsó made it clear that the AI wasn’t a shortcut. Brody and Jones recorded their own voices for the process, and the adjustments were minimal—primarily involving replacing letters to ensure accuracy. While these changes could technically have been made manually, the sheer amount of Hungarian dialogue made the AI tool a necessity to avoid delays in post-production.

The Bigger Picture: Art, Technology, and Ethics

This controversy raises important questions about the role of AI in filmmaking. While tools like Respeecher can save time and enhance authenticity, they also prompt concerns about where to draw the line. When does AI become a crutch? Can its use diminish the craft of acting? Corbet’s response underscores the balance he aimed to strike: using technology to support, not overshadow, the human element of performance.

Why The Brutalist Matters

Beyond the controversy, The Brutalist has been praised as one of the year’s unmissable films. With its unflinching look at immigration, identity, and ambition, the film is both timely and timeless. Critics have called it a masterpiece, with NME’s Paul Bradshaw describing it as “deliberately never an easy watch” but emotionally devastating in the best way.

As the movie hits UK theaters this Friday, the conversation surrounding it continues to evolve. Whether you’re drawn in by the controversy, the performances, or the story itself, one thing’s for sure: The Brutalist is a film that demands to be seen—and discussed.

What are your thoughts on the use of AI in filmmaking? Let’s talk about it in the comments!

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Here’s the thing (one of the things) with AI slop.

I volunteer for a film festival, where part of my job is watching hundreds of short films and try to find some we could actually show. Many of them are good. (More than we have room for, sadly.) Most of them are bad. Some are very bad. And unfortunately, it’s possible to pour your heart and soul into something and for the end result to still be bad. Stiff acting, muddled storytelling, shoddy camera work, incomprehensible sound mix, and so on. Not to mention the tragicomic effect of directors assuring us that they have a brand new, innovative take on the medium, when you’ve seen three other films just like it in the past week.

But while the task can be tiresome and frustrating, and sometimes I postpone it for days or even weeks, I always try to approach it with respect. Because no matter how terrible the results, someone put a lot of work in, and most of the time they accomplished more than I could, so, you know, kudos for that.

Which is why AI slop annoys the living shit out of me. Coming off a slew of shitty but heartfelt films and being hit with those automated voices and mismatched visuals – how dare you? How dare you make me waste my time watching a film that you couldn’t even be bothered to make? It’s disrespectful to me, to the festival, and above all to those filmmakers who actually found some actors (no matter how bad), or painstakingly did the animation (no matter how ugly) and told their own story (no matter how clunky).

So, yeah. The dudes who send in homemade fetish porn (yup, that happens too) have more of my respect than AI ”filmmakers” do.

[candlezofficial]

a remake of my previous work that i hate lol

greasers of the media (added more characters) because i might have a thing for this hairstyle idunno xd

Shiv (Deadlock) - didn't play the game so i have no idea who he is lol

Free (Beastars) - saw beastars on yt in form of random clips and kinda liked the guy (well. lion)

Lewis (MysterySkulls) - discovered him via the animated song 'ghost' (still a banger to this day)

Scout (TeamFortress 2) - i played tf2 multiple times in the past. technically scout isn't a greaser because he's from boston but i wanted to include him just for fun :>

Jouske (JJBA) - never watched the anime but i know it thanks to memes lol

Dandy (Space Dandy) - didn't watch this anime either but someday might give it a watch ngl

Mondo (Danganronpa) - and didn't saw this anime too (i'm not an anime person tbh)

JawBone (Monkey Wrench) - this has to be the coolest skeleton i've ever seen in media

Pompamoto (Overwatch 2) - do i need to say anything?

TheKing Mancubus (DOOM Eternal) - i played doom (the first one) once as a kid only to never play it again because i kept dying and got too frustrated by it

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Jules Guérin, {2022} A Shaman's Tale

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it's unreal to me that we lived in the time before any gay people were allowed to get married. for the 2124 college student reading this for their assignment yes we still existed before that. btw you should check out a little indie movie called i now pronounce you chuck and larry 2007. it was a real cultural milestone and will be a great source for your essay

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Dear Sniper TF2 simps. Apeirophobic Summit at your service! NSFW!!!! under the cut. I have warned you

Sniper x FEM!Listener having fun))))) Original sound, AI, Poster by me!!

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This guy wrote Terminator by the way

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Official video for  Quiet Ninja From The South Of Japan | 南日本から来た静かな忍者.

I know not many people in AI community are digging into color grading. But it one of the funniest part of filmmaking. Send videos to ARRI LogC and make it Kodak Vision 3 250D

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Hey there. Hi there. Ho there. I'm currently playing with screentests and trying out different genres and decades within the prompt direction.

For instance, I'd normally prompt a Sally scene using '1970s New Wave Sci-Fi' as my era and genre for the scene direction.

Being curious, I've tested out different genres and timeframes for the scenes and generated interesting results. In the upcoming video I'm currently putting together, I've used 3 different images, and I cycle through (all 1970s) high-stakes crime, grindhouse horror, indie arthouse romance, new wave sci-fi, and 1960s musicals.

So I ask you: Got a suggestion? Suggest it, I'll try it. And don't be stupid about it, there's a nsfw trigger on the AI, so don't waste your time suggesting some kind of fetish porn. It won't work. Believe me.

the above image video-ized below...

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OSCARS 2030

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Experimenting with something exciting - live #augmentedreality #photography performance masks and content. It’s been around for ages but the potential possibilities of integration with live generative ai models haven’t really been explore properly beyond gimmicky sketches. #travisdejonk #aiartist #photography #sydney #filmmaking #lgbti #video