During a career portraying some 75 film and TV characters, actor Tobin Bell has kept extensive journals detailing the off-camera minutiae in every one of their lives. Some might see it as obsessive; to him, it's simply the proper way to do his job. Now, on the eve of this month's "Saw IV" release, the star of the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time is revealing his Jigsaw journals for the first time, exclusively to MTV News.
TODAY'S ENTRY: From Bell's "Saw II" journal, titled "What's on John's Mind"
Click here to see the actual entry, hand-written by "Jigsaw." Translation and commentary from Bell follow.
(enclosed in a circle that represents what John detests): Liars, Hypocrites
(surrounding the circle): Afraid to die
Won't fight for life
Don't appreciate life
CRUEL TO THE POWERLESS
UNWILLING TO DO WHAT MUST BE DONE
ONLY APPRECIATE WHEN LIFE IS AT STAKE
THE CLOCK IS TICKING - Time
Peeping Tom, arsonist "Your sins will devour you...destroy you, turn on you."
Your desperate needs are your greatest fears.
Take things for granted (Don't)
Drop all morality to CLIMB over others' bodies
Never force someone to take a test I haven't taken (surgery in 3)
Those without the will to live don't deserve to live...
OFFERING HOPE TO THE DESPERATE - FROM A SYRINGE - DEALERS
You're a bully who's afraid of DANGER
Intense pressure makes simple men + women reveal their true selves
Bell explains: "The 'bully' line is talking about Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg). Jigsaw has thirty or forty key beliefs - this is just one day in his mind. I read the script for 'Saw II' three weeks before we started to film ... at some point in time, this page was empty and I was sitting in a café in Toronto, and I just wrote 'Liars and Hypocrites'. Then I thought 'What are the f-cking things that move him? What's on his mind, right now?"
