In cinema discourse, adaptation serves the purpose of visual translation from any genre of literature to film adaptation. This research paper looks at process, the problems affecting this process, and the elements that survive it. In this guise, the paper investigates the mechanisms put in place by the filmmakers in transmitting the messages which the novelist sought to transmit. While some of these adaptations have been considered successful many of them are met with the same pattern of criticism by the audience members when comparing it with the novel. The question raised here is whether a film’s fidelity to the book that it is based on has any effect on its success, or if it impacts the film in other ways. This research therefore seeks to uncover how fidelity and infidelity can both create a successful film adaptation. In essence, a film is rooted in the communication and promotion of ideas, and ideas serve as veritable instruments of enlightenment and education. Based on an intertextual analysis of the novel and the adaptation, it is revealed that the films transform all subjects and objects into new signs which communicate to the audience in a better way as compared to the novel.