Excerpted from the screenplay for Copper Strong:

INT. REHAB CENTER – DAY

COPPER CAB sits on the edge of the bed, fiddling with a cheap camera. He stares out the window at a leafless tree whose branches are skittering and clacking against the glass in the wind. His eyes are thoughtful and half-lidded. STAGE MOM comes in, smacking gum and carrying a suitcase. Copper Cab pulls his nightgown tightly around his throat to ward off the sudden chill.

STAGE MOM
Let’s go. We’re busting you out of here early.

COPPER CAB
I’m not sure if I’m ready.

STAGE MOM
What do you mean? Of course you’re ready. Look at you, you’re beautiful. Come on, your fans are waiting. What’s that in your hand?

Copper Cab looks down into a cigar box where he has built a nest for a tiny quail chick. He sighs deeply. We never see the quail chick again. What happened to the quail chick? No time to wonder, because there is Copper Cab up on stage (in his driveway) in front of zero people, ready for his big comeback show. HE’S BACK. The crowd, if there had been a crowd, would roar.

This honestly has a better soundtrack than Country Strong. (Via BuzzFeed.)

Comments (44)
  1. Happiness dance video sent.

  2. He may not have a soul, but he certainly has soul

  3. I’m sending this:

    If anything, it’s TOO legit.

  4. Videogum Everywhere…we should all send him dance response videos…or at least say something positive to make him feel better

  5. For those of us who watched the entire video:

  6. Something something M.I.A.’s “Born Free” something. Punchline.

  7. Once again, I am very appreciative that “the internet” was just AIM, AOL chat rooms, and Napster when I was a teenager.

  8. I like how his dancing is already causing death threats.

    fitzykid1990
    19 seconds ago YOU ARE FINISHED COPPERCAB

  9. Nothing for the haters to hate on here. No sir. I predict naughtt but glorious praise on youtube.

  10. Someone who knows how to use a computer should add a funny soundtrack for this…..and then explain to me how to do it

  11. This boy is just taking the mickey out of us now.

  12. This may be the first time he has ever been in direct sunlight, look at those legs!

  13. I did not expect this video to put me in such existential despair. Really, we’re all just drudgingly dancing through life to a song only we hear while a weary church bell cries in the distance.

  14. In 3 years he is most likely going to get a back tattoo that says “If you’re not legit, then don’t even bother.”

  15. Any guesses as to what he was listening to? I’m gonna say Michael Jackson, given those sweet crotch grabs.

  16. His “first” dance video? Is this a threat?

  17. He looks like a baby moose trying to figure out how his legs work for so much of that video.

  18. Why can’t we all just get along?

  19. while he was dancing I was thinking – ‘ok, he’s totally self-aware now. this is definitely a joke on us’

    but there’s something about the way coppercab talks that is so ridiculously un-self-awarely genuine. he really still isn’t faking this whole ‘I am an artist, check out ma skillz’ thing.

    yikes

  20. I’m beginning to think Copper Cab isn’t allowed to shoot his videos in the house.

  21. For whom the bell tolls? For ginger kid! Because he fell down exactly when the bell was tolling, you see! (Also his videos are progressively worse)

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