What are everyone's thoughts on what those letters said that Max wrote?
shareI think it just said that he set up the whole thing with the dinner because he realized that it was in fact a inevitable situation. He probably apologized too for the mess and would like to know if they can forgive him as the dinner was on him and if they ever get married, asked if he could be the best man.
sharethe note read exactly what he said at the end of the movie when he is toasting jay and sam at there wedding
shareooooh, i had not thought of this. but this was good. this was good indeed. the letters (not revealed to the audience) were finally revealed in his comments at the wedding. very perceptive. very nice indeed. thank you.
alvin from xalapa
Thanks cat guess I am not on the ball either.
shareI really think that it was an apology for being such a dick the way he was through out the movie and that he hopes that jay and sam are happy together and that he realized he made quite a mistake ever having jay perform a test to see if jay would cheat on him
shareYes, but not in those plain words. It was, ofcourse, as kittycat164 wrote. It's quite frightening that people don't find that obvious. It's these people who vote down the ratings of these kinds of movies, and puts the latest Hollywood-action movies on top of the charts.
Don't take it personal, darkhunter7070.
PS. I gave a 6.
I also think the letter said what Max said in his toast at the end, it is the maxim, or truth he discovered in the gift that Jay gave him (a book). The book was quoted as being written by Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, in the 17th century.
The maxim is 70th in the book, "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims", written by la Rochefoucauld. The English equivelant being:
"There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not."
Although, I believe he learned much more, and may have put more in the letters, as the book covers many such truths on love, passions, praise, pride, reason, self-love, vice, virtue, faults, deceit, fortune, friends, gratitude, idleness, infidelity, jealousy, merit, valor, courage, bravery, as well as many other; but of all subjects the book covers, love is the most widely covered of the maxims.
Also, Max (the character) is a play on the book's title that la Rochefoucauld wrote, he wrote on maxims, or commonly held truths.
D.
Project Geutenberg has buried the URL from the response, but used Archive.org to pull Maxim #70 out at: https://web.archive.org/web/20040905091757/http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext05/8roch10h.htm#70 - also a nice page for the Maxim with same is at: https://www.buboquote.com/en/quote/3466-la-rochefoucauld-there-is-no-disguise-which-can-long-hide-love-where-it-exists-nor-feign-it-where-it-does
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