Why did The Bad and the Beautiful use an expressionistic camera style?

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Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful. — Vincente Minnelli Vincente Minnelli (right) with Lana Turner (left) during the filming of *The Bad and the Beautiful* (1952).

In the 1952 film The Bad and the Beautiful, director Vincente Minnelli utilized a florid, expressionistic camera style specifically to mirror the violent emotions experienced by the film's characters.1