Didn’t realize it was based on a book. Good recommendation. I’ll save my Amazon purchases for something else. Agree on the soundtrack, but I did enjoy the movie, too.
Offtrack, I’ve noticed several uses of “meh” on FreeRepublic and I was wondering if anyone knows the origins of “fegs”? It’s used in a poem from 1787 by Henry Livingston and I’m assuming it means “shrug,” which sounds similar to “meh”.
Believe me dear brother tho women may be
Compared to us, of inferiour degree
Yet still they are useful I vow with a fegs
When our shirts are in tatters & jackets in rags.
Henry was actually big into humor and was quite the feminist for his time. Also a futurist. He wrote about traveling to the moon, societies on various planets and the dinosaurs that once roamed the Hudson Valley in New York.
The book is by Thea von Harbou, and to call the prose “florid” is an understatement.
It is, however, available cheaply for Kindle:
https://smile.amazon.com/Metropolis-working-Contents-joystick-navigation-ebook/dp/B0056UM1BA/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493210541&sr=1-3&keywords=Metropolis
Merriam Webster says that Feg is a Scottish word for Fig:
Definition of feg
chiefly Scottish variant of fig