Batman Begins Can someone tell me what this is?

[SHF]

I've taken a wild guess and pressume its the memory cloth for his cape and he's making the structure for it. But why is it in the form of a glove???

 

[BatMatt]

I think the structure has been attached to the gloves, so when the current runs through the glove, it extends to the rest of the cape

 

[Mr_Mortis]

But he doesn't where those gloves constantly, so he never actually uses them. I reckon he is just testing it out. Imagine try to fight with those things on lol.

I have never understood this part.

 

[BatMatt]

The gloves slip into the cape when he wants to activate the memory cloth. He wears the gloves the whole time as batman, but the structure coming off his fingers are now built into the cape.

 

[lujho]

I think it's really just an idea that was in the script but was abandoned during filming.

The implication in the script, and in the scene screencapped above, is that he slips his hands into "gloves" built in to the cape which go rigid and make up the structure of the skeleton of the cape.

This would make the whole deal closer to actual bats wings.

However, in scenes where he actually uses the cape he just seems to grab the edges, from what I can see.

It's a shame, because I think if they had shown that the cape is supported by his extended fingers they could have had some really coll and creepy bat-like poses and movements - with the cape actually moving a lot more like real wings - not when gliding, of course, but for example when he's hanging upside down.