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A character who has just gone through some sort of trauma, learned something they [[Go Mad From the Revelation|probably didn't need to know]], or seen something they really shouldn't have had to, will often have an unfocused, vacant stare into a vast abyss of nothingness, slipping into a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|shock and weariness]] from which it is very hard to shake.
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* Commonly, the expression on some of the characters in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' (indeed, the beginning graveyard scene ends with this).
** [[Enforced Method Acting]]: The entire cast was run rugged, interminable military exercises - ''except'' Matt Damon (who plays Pvt. Ryan). It even made the cast ''resent'' Damon, which was entirely the point.
* WWII veteran and b-movie star [[Audie Murphy]], who saw many of his comrades in arms killed and is credited with personally killing, wounding or capturing more than two hundred Axis soldiers, had a particularly bleak and distant stare, which director [[John Huston]] put to good use in [[The Red Badge of Courage]]. Murphy developed a warmer and somewhat more animated screen persona around 1953, perhaps due to the birth of his beloved son Terry, but he never really lost the
* If there is a fetish for thousand-yard stares, the film version of ''[[The Road]]'' is your fuel.
* ''[[Boogie Nights]]'': During the scene at Rahad Jackson's house, a drug-addled Dirk stares into space for what seems like an eternity.
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