International Communication Studies in Literature and Art

ICSLA, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2025, pp.194-210.

Print ISSN: 3079-2711; Online ISSN: 3104-5081

Journal homepage: https://www.icslajournal.com

DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/ICSLA.25.2.03  

闳约深美 大爱无疆

——评好莱坞电影《六福客栈》的主题音乐创作

卢冠宇（Lu Guanyu），杨红光（Yang Hongguang）

摘要:好莱坞电影《六福客栈》（1958）是由马克·罗布森导演、马尔科姆·亨利·阿诺德作曲，英格丽·褒曼等影星联袂出演的一部讲述中国题材的人物传记影片。该片一经面世便获得第31届奥斯卡金像奖等诸多殊荣，在海外广享盛誉。本文立足其中的拯救、爱情等主题音乐，从作曲技法、音画关系、叙事策略等方面进行深入开掘，以此揭示电影如何通过音乐来塑造人物形象、推动叙事进程、制造戏剧冲突，进而呈现精彩的视听奇观。

关键词：好莱坞电影《六福客栈》；主题音乐；作曲技法；音画关系；叙事策略

作者简介：卢冠宇，宁波大学音乐学院硕士研究生，研究方向：作曲与作曲技术理论。电邮：lu1684165318@163.com。杨红光，通讯作者，宁波大学音乐学院教授，研究方向：作曲与作曲技术理论。电邮：yanghongguang@nbu.edu.cn。

Title: Magnificent and profound Love without boundaries: Commenting on the music composition of the Hollywood movie “Inn of the Sixth Happiness”

Abstract: The Hollywood film The Inn of Sixth Happiness (1958) is a biographical film about China directed by Mark Robson, with music composed by Malcolm Henry Arnold and starring Ingrid Bergman. The film won the 31st Academy Award and many other awards when it was released, and was widely acclaimed overseas. Based on the theme music of salvation and love, this article explores in-depth the compositional techniques, sound-picture relationship, and narrative strategies to reveal how the film portrays characters, promotes the narrative process, and creates dramatic conflicts through music, thus presenting a wonderful audio-visual spectacle.

Keywords: Hollywood movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness; theme music; compositional techniques; sonic relationships; narrative strategies

Author Biography: Lu Guanyu, Master’s candidate at the School of Music, Ningbo University, Research focus: Composition and Composition Techniques, Theory. Email: guanyu_lew@163.com. Yang Hongguang, the Corresponding author, Professor at the School of Music, Ningbo University, Research interests: Composition and Composition Techniques Theory. Email: yanghongguang@nbu.edu.cn.

Received: 08 Sep 2025 / Revised: 30 Sep 2025 / Accepted: 06 Nov 2025 / Published online: 30 Nov 2025 / Print published: 30 Dec 2025.