  During the war, Sartre was employed as a script writer by a production company for whom he wrote eight scripts. Two of these were published after the war (Sartre 1947c, 1948b), and two of them were filmed. Most of these scripts provided the material for Sartre’s plays and novels when their realisation failed. In 1958, he also wrote two scripts for films on Freud and Joseph Le Bon. Sartre also wrote twelve articles on film in total, notably a critique of Citizen Kane in 1945, which inspired a response by André Bazin that was to become one of his most famous essays (Bazin 1947). De Beauvoir also recounts the deep impact that the cinematic experience had on Sartre’s ontological views. According to her, the cinematic representation of human actions hostage to the world’s power of resistance was a crucial source of inspiration for his mature ontology, notably for his vision of the absurdity inherent in the world’s contingency (de Beauvoir 1960).