Editors use elliptical editing to control the pace of the story. A long, tedious event that may take hours in the story may be elided so that film spectators only need to sit through a few minutes. For example, the hero of the story might be wandering in a desert for days. As spectators, we don't want to sit in the theater for days, watching his every move. Because of our limited patience, editors will only show a shot of the hero beginning to wander, and then show a shot of the hero entering a friendly town, omitting the uninteresting parts in between