木兰替父从军的故事在中国家喻户晓。中美两国的电影人都将其进行改编并拍摄成了电影,但是两部作品对木兰这一人物的刻画方式不尽相同。本文拟从模式变量理论的视角解读中西方电影人在演绎同一人物——木兰时所产生的文化差异。 Mulan for his father’s story of the army well-known in China. The filmmakers in both China and the United States have adapted and filmed them into films, but the two works portrays the character of Mulan in different ways. This article intends to explain the cultural differences produced by Chinese and Western filmmakers in interpreting the same character Mulan from the perspective of the theory of modal variables.