A Midsummer Night's Dream #2

I watched the film "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on Amazon Prime.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Dir. Peter Hall. N/A. MGM. N/A. Streamed Video.

I am glad that this assignment had me watch a a video/play after reading it. I did feel a little confused in some spots of the reading because I had to get the definition of the word and reread the sentence sometimes, but for the most part I think I followed along. The video was more of an "Ohhhhh. I see what he means here." It seemed like the video stayed pretty close to the same wording to the play. I thought there was maybe a few spots where there was a word switched out with something more current, but nothing dramatic.
It was a lot easier for me to understand with the visual though.Seeing the way the actors responded and presented the wording helped with what Shakespeare was saying. I even had pictured the men and women dressed almost the same way, but the women seemed to be a little more 70's style to me.
Now the forest fairies are what surprised me the most. I thought that the director in the movie styled the king of the fairies to look almost like, what I vision anyway, the devil. I felt like the movie portrayed the king and queen of the fairies as a good and evil, which I didn't pick up in the reading.
I really enjoyed reading the play and then watching it. I think I may have to do this with more plays. I have done it with books made into movies quite a bit, but the play was very enjoyable.