For the film Full Metal Jacket, which was set during the Vietnam War, director Stanley Kubrick had 200 palm trees from Spain and 100,000 fake tropical plants from Hong Kong shipped to England, where the production was filming. This was done in order to create a scenario for the movie that was more accurate to actual life. Matthew Modine, R.
Lee Ermey, and Vincent D'Onofrio were among the actors who acted in the movie when it was released in 1987.