https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyDIQKu3D0 What's intriguing about The Undertaker at his first Wrestlemania is that he gets no "special" treatment. One thing in watching 22 entrances of the Undertaker into Wrestlemania is that you note how Vince McMahon does business. Before he gives you any added gimmicks, he wants to see how you work the gimmick you already have, and how well you can get that over. Of course, The Undertaker still looks creepy, chilling and captivating, and the low angle camera shot (and the interspersed shots of fearful children in the crowd) makes him look imposing and iconic. Though at that point already a well-established part of how WWE was doing business on top of the card by Wrestlemania VII, 'taker was still an unproven WWE commodity, and largely still treated as such.
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