Patterns Followed, Patterns Compared

I am starting on my fourth Bond novel now and I have seen the movies let say around a hundred times. I think it is safe to say that I would be able to notice some sort of pattern by now. Recognizing this pattern will help me see the important points of the Bond texts and will help me develop a better paper for my literary analysis class. In the Bond films the pattern is pretty simple. In all of the films with the exception of the first film there is a pre-title sequence where either a quick action sequence is shown or something that teases the plot of the film (included here just for your enjoyment is the pre-title sequence from Goldfinger arguably the best of the Bond movies):

The opening chapters of the novels however are usually quite different. In traditional novel style the Bond books open up with a lot of exposition explaining characters and building a good background for the plot.