This paper seeks to offer the possibility of comparing Hawthorn's The Scarlet Letter both in fiction and movie. The main focus will be on the similarities and differences between the novel and the film. It will also underpin the falsification of consciousness initiated by the director of the film, Roland Joffé, who directed and produced a twisted version that has distorted that masterpiece. The adaptation, directed and produced, is in fact far from the factual novel, especially in terms of plot, themes, characters, the author's point of view, symbols and allegory. This paper deals with Roland Joffé's film despite the fact that there are many others, but the researcher deemed that Joffé's is more challenging than the others. Finally, it can be claimed that this adaptation adopted in this study has been deformed for implicit reasons known only by the producer.