Originally posted by long_lost_corleone:
[quote]Originally posted by Mike Sullivan:
Undoubtedly one of the most debated scenes in cinema history involes our last glimpse at Max. Did he jump in?
They purposely dressed up another actor to look like James Woods, and then shot the scene from a distance; he wanted to keep it a mystery. The whole film is a mystery (IE the opium-dream theory.) [/quote]You said it: Theory.
Bothing was ever confirmed by Leone and when asked by James Woods if Max really jumped in he said "He did, but he didn't".