Reading vs. Watching

I went ahead and watched an adaptation of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by William Shakespeare. The adaptation that I watched was "A Midsummer Night's Rave". This is basically a parody of the original play in which the characters are all at a rave and Oberon turns into your typical club drug dealer and Puck, who is a little more feminine in this parody becomes the middle man meant to deliver this "potion" to the right people. The difference between reading the play and watching the film is that the characters are made out a little different. Oberon doesn't seem like mighty king as he's telling Puck about this potion or drug. Puck seems like a servant, he's a young, weak, somewhat naive person who goes around executing the orders received from Oberon. Also, the characters in the film are portrayed as young, adolescent at best. Whereas when you read the play, and are familiar with Shakespeare's work, you envision these characters as somewhere between 40 and 55 years old. So reading and then watching changes your view on the characters, but at the same time, it has to be acknowledged that this is a parody, not an actually depiction of the play.