Cutting edge editing

What makes a movie a movie is the editor. Editing is driven by emotion, this emotion shows the editor when to cut and inter-cut scenes together. It can condense a lot of footage into just they key scenes. All of the boring and uninteresting bits are left out. All of the films you see that are just generally uninteresting, probably haven't been edited tightly enough and have many scenes that are just too long.  An average hollywood film shoots around 200 hours of footage. The editor look at every frame (1/24 second) as either key or unnecersary, One extra frame on the end of a shot can either make or break a scene. Editors have tricks and interesting ways to tell a story, in hollywood they have developed continuity editing. This is their ways of keeping the viewer engaged, some use the tactic of showing the end at the begining. The continuity comes in where say you see a fight scene and then the relationship in the next shot where you see an injured actor.