Raiders Boulder Scene

What did you notice about the way that the boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark was edited? In your opinion, how did the editing play a key role in the opening of the film?

The scenes with the most actions had the most cuts in it. The most important angles of the story was used in the cuts to help tell the story. For example, the scene where the guy is holding onto the rope had a closeup of the rope in order to emphasize the importance of the rope for his survival. Most of the shots that were hard to recognize as a cut has similar movements in both shots, which helped the flow of the edit. When a character is running from left to right, the next scene would also have a continuation of that left to right motion.The cuts usually showed where the most audio is coming from, whether that is a footstep or a conversation. Also, regards to the audio editing, some of the audio was made to go from the right to the left in order to follow the visual.