Jaws 50th 2025: Does the Legend of Jaws Contain A Lie As Big as the Legend of Psycho?

Seeing as 2025 is the 50th anniversary of Jaws. It is gonna be big, I think. Spielberg will get to bask in memories. And didn't QT say that Jaws is not only Spielberg's greatest movie but THE greatest movie? ("Not the greatest film," sayeth QT..."the greatest MOVIE.")

Here's my contribution to the Anniversary splash. The following question:

"Does the Jaws legend contain the second greatest lie in the history of movies after the Psycho legend?"

I've posited the Psycho lie before: EVERY article, EVERY book about Psycho says that "Hitchocck surpised his audiences by kililng off the star in the shower before the movie was half over" BUT..the original 1960 trailer SHOWS the shower murder starting and DESCRIBES it.

So..a lie. "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

Now here's the possible lie about Jaws:

EVERY article, EVERY book about Jaws says "because the mechanical shark didn't work, they had to change a blatant William Castle horror movie into a suggestive Alfred Hitchcock suggestive movie.' In short, don't show the shark in full for a long, long, time and sometimes barely at all.

I think, from time to time, that THAT story might just be a lie, too. Here's why:

When I first saw Jaws (opening day, first matinee, June 1975) I came out of it with a strong regard for HOW THE SHARK WAS SLOWLY REVEALED across the entire movie:

The naked female swimmer victim: we never see the shark at all.
The two guys trying to lure the shark with beef on a hook: we only see the dock dragged by the shark move.
The little boy on the raft victim: We see a circling up-and-down flash of fin as the shark attacks the boy.
The guy on the rowboat: Overhead shot of the shark's head and jaws biting down on the screaming victim(and oh how the AUDIENCE screamed at that shot.) But the shark head is underwater, hard to see.
Non-victim: Chief Brody: The shark head rises out of the water.
Various shots of the shark's head popping out at sea.
FINALLY: we watch, graphically, start to finish...the shark emerge onto the sinking boat to bite down on Quint, chew him up and swallow him down. Every detail, the shark in full view.

See...I can't believe ALL of that wasn't SCRIPTED from the beginning: show none of the shark(like when those two guys try to lure him with beef on a hook) then a little bit, then a little bit more, then ALL OF HIM. And show more of him "out at sea with the three guys" than near shore with the tourists.

I'd love the see the original screenplay FIRST DRAFT. That movie seems to me like "not showing the shark" was PRE-PLANNED, not an accident of a malfunctioning shark.

I wonder if we will ever know. Anybody seen that first script?