Cloudy: The Golden Age Archetype

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs portrays the golden age archetype in a fun and creative way. Flint Lockwood, lifetime inventor, lives in a common world along with his father, Tim who owns a sardine store. Unfortunately, the island they live on can no longer export any of their sardine stocks and it becomes the only food population has available to them, forcing them to eat it all time. In this case, the island they live on represents their utopia or perfect world. Being the innovator he is, Flint invents a machine that can convert water into any food imaginable as a solution to the sardine problem his town is facing. At first, Flint's invention works perfectly and does the job it was created to do, causing