Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1987, follows Marine recruits through Parris Island training before Vietnam. R. Lee Ermey, a former drill instructor, played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, while Vincent D'Onofrio played Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed Gomer Pyle. The obstacle course tirade became one of the film's most quoted training scenes. In Italy the dubbed version, renaming Pyle as Palla di Lardo, spread widely on soundboards and in meme edits, where Hartman's furious voice is reused to mock slow, lazy or exhausted performances.