At first, a black bird flies circles in the sky overhead.An outline of a car - with its headlights on - emerges almost imperceptibly, filmed with tremendous depth of field, as it plows through the swirling snow toward the camera.By 18 months, Caesar was signing up to 24 words.By age 2, Caesar was completing puzzles and models designed for children 8 years and up.At age 3, Caesar continues o show cognitive skills that far exceed that of a human counterpart.He completed the Lucas Tower in fifteen moves, "a perfect score." Will kept him at home (and made the attic a playroom for the ape), where he often brought his work to be near and tend to the active, fast-learning, acrobatically-inclined animal.But Terry is hot-tempered, and reacts harshly to the criticism.Charley excuses his brother""s a-typical behavior: "It""s just the Joey Doyle thing.You know how he is.He exaggerates the hing.Just too much Marquis of Queensbury.It softens ""em up."Johnny raises his voice and explains how he became head of the local union and continues to maintain a lucrative (but illegal) operation.Austrian Carl Mayer wrote the screenplay, adapting he story/novellaA Trip to Tilsit("Die Reise Nach Tilsit") by novelist/playwright Hermann Sudermann.